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SETI@Home needs your help - urgently!
Simon:
Hi folks,
as you may know, SETI@Home is funded by donations only.
Right now, the project is in danger of running out of money! This means, no more Alien searching for you or me, lower chances of ETI's being discovered in our lifetimes, among others.
It also means that the hard work a lot of people have put into this project may be for nothing, after all, and I'd really hate to see that happen.
Now, here's how to help - if you can, donate to SETI@Home directly! This only works if you have a Credit Card, however.
A lot of people have complained (me among them) about the lack of other donation options. Some have started to do something about it (like PopAndBob on his site).
I'm in contact with Eric Korpela, project scientist at SETI@Home. Together with him, I've discussed and come up with a plan how to offer some more donation options.
Namely, I've installed a PayPal Donation page on this site - look on the top left next to the logo. Eric (who is one of the few direct project employees) has full access to the PayPal account receiving the donations (it's a new one I made just for this purpose).
All funds donated to this PayPal account will go IN FULL to the SETI@Home project, that has to be clear from the start.
PayPal charges a transaction fee, this will be charged no matter what, and be the only deduction - also, it will already be deducted by the time the funds are credited to the account, so again, what comes in does go out in full.
I can only urge you all to donate - be it a dollar or be it more - every little bit counts!
Also, please make sure you fill in your SETI@Home account number for every donation - whether you want your green star or not - to make things easier for the project to process.
Pepo:
--- Quote from: Simon on 08 Jan 2007, 10:44:09 pm ---All funds donated to this PayPal account will go IN FULL to the SETI@Home project. I want to part of it for myself or this site, that has to be clear from the start. It's also why I definitely wanted Eric Korpela to have access to this account.
--- End quote ---
Hi Simon, please do not take me wrong, I know how clear you want to express your intentions.
If you can, you should repair one late-night typo in your message (otherwise someone could understand thay you want to take part on the payed money). I suppose you "wanted no part of it"...
Peter
Simon:
Thanks Peter,
thanks for spotting that ugly typo! Could really be misconstrued...
Now all that's left over is for me to complete the nasty PayPal transaction infrastructure (custom PHP pages for entry/exit and data reproduction for the donor)...
Should be done within the next two days.
Regards,
Simon.
Fuzzy Hollynoodles:
Thank you Simon, I'll make a note about this to all, I am in contact with. :)
If you want, you can move my post from yesterday to this thread. I'll leave it up to you.
NedLudd:
Simon,
Sorry to be a literary critic, but I'd drop the "I want no part of this" statement entirely.
"100% of the proceeds goes to SETI" really says what you want to say, and when you give people more words, it seems that you simply give them more opportunity to misunderstand.
Short is better.
-- Ned
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